Product Management Job Trends

Product Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Product Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 340 248 307
Rank change year-on-year -92 +59 +10
Permanent jobs citing Product Management 605 621 674
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.52% 1.26% 0.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% 1.42% 1.06%
Number of salaries quoted 304 278 325
10th Percentile £36,750 £43,198 £41,900
25th Percentile £47,500 £57,125 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,047 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.34% +0.07% -
75th Percentile £81,250 £87,500 £88,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £117,500 £106,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £61,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +2.46% -6.15%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Product Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,196 43,853 63,499
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.06% 88.72% 81.26%
Number of salaries quoted 58,302 24,746 35,929
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,750 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Product Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Product Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Product Management
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management

Product Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Management over the 6 months to 18 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Product Management in the UK

Product Management
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Management within the UK over the 6 months to 18 September 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -96 531 £60,850 -13.13% 1,710
London -28 320 £70,561 -11.80% 1,168
UK excluding London -163 220 £60,000 -4.00% 665
Work from Home 0 205 £60,000 -14.29% 639
North of England -43 63 £60,850 -13.07% 143
South East -115 49 £42,000 -32.80% 181
North West +11 44 £85,000 +25.93% 98
Midlands -39 36 £48,500 -19.17% 86
South West -85 29 £68,000 +19.83% 67
West Midlands -40 25 £49,250 -14.30% 56
East of England -38 23 £67,500 +3.05% 67
Yorkshire -49 17 £57,500 -23.33% 31
Scotland +5 13 £77,500 +47.62% 72
East Midlands -39 11 £39,194 -47.74% 30
Northern Ireland -79 4 - - 36
Wales -70 3 £65,000 +8.59% 17
North East -67 2 £90,000 - 14

Product Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 42 (6.94%) Confluence
2 19 (3.14%) CMS
3 10 (1.65%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (1.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.50%) ArcGIS
5 3 (0.50%) Drupal
6 1 (0.17%) Apache
6 1 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.17%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.17%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 36 (5.95%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 30 (4.96%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (2.81%) Microsoft Excel
4 9 (1.49%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (0.99%) Moqups
6 5 (0.83%) Chatbot
6 5 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 3 (0.50%) AutoCAD
7 3 (0.50%) MS Visio
8 2 (0.33%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.17%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.17%) Trello
Business Applications
1 29 (4.79%) Workfront
2 14 (2.31%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.83%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.83%) Shopify
4 3 (0.50%) Distributed Ledger
4 3 (0.50%) iTrent
5 2 (0.33%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.33%) SAP PSCD
6 1 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.17%) Eikon
6 1 (0.17%) Magento
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.17%) PeopleSoft HCM
6 1 (0.17%) RMDS
6 1 (0.17%) SAP ECC
6 1 (0.17%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 78 (12.89%) AWS
2 77 (12.73%) SaaS
3 46 (7.60%) Azure
4 36 (5.95%) iPaaS
5 17 (2.81%) GCP
6 16 (2.64%) Figma
7 15 (2.48%) Google Workspace
8 14 (2.31%) Power Platform
9 11 (1.82%) GitHub
9 11 (1.82%) GitHub Copilot
9 11 (1.82%) Microsoft 365
10 10 (1.65%) Anthropic Claude
11 7 (1.16%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (1.16%) Dynamics 365
11 7 (1.16%) Microsoft Copilot
12 5 (0.83%) Copilot Studio
12 5 (0.83%) Power Automate
12 5 (0.83%) Zapier
13 4 (0.66%) Amazon Bedrock
13 4 (0.66%) Asana
Communications & Networking
1 42 (6.94%) Broadband
2 33 (5.45%) HTTP
3 11 (1.82%) Firewall
4 9 (1.49%) WAN
5 8 (1.32%) DNS
6 6 (0.99%) DHCP
6 6 (0.99%) LAN
6 6 (0.99%) NX-OS
6 6 (0.99%) SD-WAN
7 4 (0.66%) Multicast
7 4 (0.66%) Network Security
7 4 (0.66%) SAN
8 3 (0.50%) CTI
8 3 (0.50%) Intranet
8 3 (0.50%) MPLS
8 3 (0.50%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.50%) VSAT
8 3 (0.50%) WLAN
9 2 (0.33%) Ethernet
9 2 (0.33%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (6.28%) Metadata
2 13 (2.15%) Power BI
3 8 (1.32%) Big Data
4 7 (1.16%) SQL Server
5 6 (0.99%) BigQuery
6 4 (0.66%) Electronic Patient Records
7 3 (0.50%) Geospatial Data
8 2 (0.33%) Mixpanel
8 2 (0.33%) MySQL
8 2 (0.33%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.33%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.17%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.17%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.17%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.17%) Db2
9 1 (0.17%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.17%) Redis
9 1 (0.17%) SAP HANA
9 1 (0.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 71 (11.74%) JIRA
2 11 (1.82%) Git
3 10 (1.65%) Claude Code
4 9 (1.49%) Selenium
5 8 (1.32%) GitLab
6 7 (1.16%) Postman
7 6 (0.99%) Cypress.io
7 6 (0.99%) Jenkins
8 4 (0.66%) JUnit
9 2 (0.33%) TestNG
10 1 (0.17%) Fiddler
10 1 (0.17%) Visual Studio
General
1 194 (32.07%) Social Skills
2 187 (30.91%) Finance
3 179 (29.59%) Marketing
4 89 (14.71%) Law
5 88 (14.55%) Analytical Skills
6 82 (13.55%) Banking
7 80 (13.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 54 (8.93%) Presentation Skills
9 53 (8.76%) Retail
10 46 (7.60%) Influencing Skills
11 35 (5.79%) Public Sector
12 31 (5.12%) Manufacturing
12 31 (5.12%) Organisational Skills
13 27 (4.46%) Legal
14 19 (3.14%) Telecoms
15 16 (2.64%) Publishing
16 14 (2.31%) Electronics
17 13 (2.15%) Pharmaceutical
18 11 (1.82%) Financial Institution
19 9 (1.49%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 162 (26.78%) Product Manager
2 90 (14.88%) Lead
3 80 (13.22%) Senior
4 63 (10.41%) Product Owner
5 50 (8.26%) Software Engineer
6 38 (6.28%) Senior Manager
7 35 (5.79%) Lead Software Engineer
8 34 (5.62%) Development Engineer
8 34 (5.62%) Software Development Engineer
9 27 (4.46%) Senior Product Manager
10 20 (3.31%) Product Lead
11 17 (2.81%) Senior Software Engineer
12 15 (2.48%) Development Manager
12 15 (2.48%) Technical Manager
13 13 (2.15%) Platform Manager
13 13 (2.15%) Technical Engineer
14 12 (1.98%) Consultant
14 12 (1.98%) Support Engineer
14 12 (1.98%) Technical Support
14 12 (1.98%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (6.94%) REST
2 17 (2.81%) HTML
2 17 (2.81%) Terraform
3 15 (2.48%) Google Maps API
4 13 (2.15%) React
5 9 (1.49%) LangChain
6 8 (1.32%) PyTorch
6 8 (1.32%) TensorFlow
7 7 (1.16%) XML
8 6 (0.99%) Pandas
8 6 (0.99%) Spring
9 5 (0.83%) CrewAI
9 5 (0.83%) CSS
9 5 (0.83%) LlamaIndex
9 5 (0.83%) Spring Boot
10 4 (0.66%) FIX Protocol
10 4 (0.66%) LangGraph
10 4 (0.66%) Node.js
10 4 (0.66%) NumPy
10 4 (0.66%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 192 (31.74%) Product Ownership
2 49 (8.10%) Social Media
3 39 (6.45%) Marketing Technology
4 37 (6.12%) Over-the-Top Content
4 37 (6.12%) Public Cloud
5 33 (5.45%) AI Agents
6 29 (4.79%) Onboarding
7 28 (4.63%) Management Information System
8 24 (3.97%) Cloud Native
9 16 (2.64%) Augmented Reality
10 15 (2.48%) Enterprise Software
10 15 (2.48%) Virtual Reality
10 15 (2.48%) Web Conferencing
11 14 (2.31%) Driving Licence
12 12 (1.98%) Biopharmaceutical
12 12 (1.98%) Data Centre
12 12 (1.98%) Distributed Systems
12 12 (1.98%) Enterprise Cloud
13 11 (1.82%) Blog
14 10 (1.65%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 16 (2.64%) Linux
2 14 (2.31%) Windows
3 4 (0.66%) Unix
4 3 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (0.33%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.17%) Android
6 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.17%) CentOS
6 1 (0.17%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 342 (56.53%) Roadmaps
2 232 (38.35%) Agile
3 181 (29.92%) Product Roadmap
4 162 (26.78%) AI
5 140 (23.14%) Decision-Making
6 137 (22.64%) Stakeholder Management
7 134 (22.15%) Continuous Improvement
8 117 (19.34%) Customer Experience
8 117 (19.34%) Product Vision
9 111 (18.35%) Problem-Solving
10 103 (17.02%) User Stories
11 99 (16.36%) Product Backlog
12 96 (15.87%) Product Strategy
13 92 (15.21%) Software Engineering
14 85 (14.05%) Analytics
15 79 (13.06%) Project Management
16 76 (12.56%) User Experience
17 74 (12.23%) Product Requirements
18 73 (12.07%) Mentoring
19 68 (11.24%) Backlog Prioritisation
Programming Languages
1 51 (8.43%) Java
2 41 (6.78%) Python
3 16 (2.64%) SQL
4 12 (1.98%) TypeScript
5 11 (1.82%) C++
5 11 (1.82%) JavaScript
6 9 (1.49%) PowerShell
7 6 (0.99%) R
8 4 (0.66%) Bash
8 4 (0.66%) C#
9 3 (0.50%) Bicep
9 3 (0.50%) MATLAB
9 3 (0.50%) PHP
10 2 (0.33%) ABAP
10 2 (0.33%) Perl
11 1 (0.17%) C
Qualifications
1 149 (24.63%) Degree
2 43 (7.11%) Master's Degree
3 31 (5.12%) MBA
3 31 (5.12%) Security Cleared
4 27 (4.46%) SC Cleared
5 14 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (1.98%) HND
7 11 (1.82%) HNC
8 10 (1.65%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (1.49%) PhD
10 8 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (1.16%) CCNA
11 7 (1.16%) PMI Certification
11 7 (1.16%) PMP
12 6 (0.99%) CSPO
12 6 (0.99%) MCSE
13 4 (0.66%) AWS Certification
13 4 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (0.66%) DBS Check
14 3 (0.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (6.28%) QA
2 21 (3.47%) Accessibility
3 12 (1.98%) SLA
4 9 (1.49%) PMO
5 8 (1.32%) GDPR
6 7 (1.16%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.33%) DICOM
7 2 (0.33%) GRC
7 2 (0.33%) HL7
7 2 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.33%) PERC
7 2 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.17%) DO-178B
8 1 (0.17%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.17%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.17%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.17%) NIST
8 1 (0.17%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (1.32%) Docker
2 8 (1.32%) Firmware
3 6 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (0.99%) vSphere
4 5 (0.83%) Active Directory
5 4 (0.66%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.17%) KVM
7 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 8 (1.32%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.16%) FortiGate
3 3 (0.50%) WSUS
4 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.17%) Amdocs OSS
5 1 (0.17%) Ansible
5 1 (0.17%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (0.17%) Forefront Identity Manager
5 1 (0.17%) Kibana
5 1 (0.17%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 53 (8.76%) Microsoft
2 40 (6.61%) Adobe
3 31 (5.12%) Salesforce
4 27 (4.46%) Google
5 17 (2.81%) Facebook
5 17 (2.81%) OpenAI
6 15 (2.48%) Cisco
7 12 (1.98%) Oracle
7 12 (1.98%) Workday
8 9 (1.49%) VMware
9 6 (0.99%) FIS
9 6 (0.99%) Juniper
9 6 (0.99%) SAP
10 4 (0.66%) Fortinet
11 3 (0.50%) Aderant
11 3 (0.50%) CA Agile Central
11 3 (0.50%) Fujitsu
11 3 (0.50%) iManage
11 3 (0.50%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 3 (0.50%) ServiceNow